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Mitch McConnell shares GOP's ‘worst nightmare’ scenario of a Harris-Walz White House
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During his speech, Spectrum reports that McConnell called the Walz-Harris ticket “the far left of the Democratic Party.”
“And by the way, that’s most Democrats today,” McConnell said, according to Spectrum.
Oh, no! Harris and Walz are representing the will of the majority of the people! Whatever the fuck is to be done about democracy?!
It's also not possible for most democrats to be on the far left of their party (unless the remaining minority are on average even further to the right of their party). If everyone's further left than you're expecting, that's just the party's new average center position.
Majority of Americans: Support policies X, Y, and Z.
Democrats: Put policies X, Y, and Z into their platform.
Republicans: Extreme socialist Demoncrabs want to destroy America!!!
Literally every dem presidential candidate is the Most Furthest Leftistest candidate in history.
Biden was the most leftist politician ever the year he beat Sanders. Clinton was an extremists Marxist in 2016. Obama was literally Stalin in 2008. John Kerry was going to be to the left of the Vietcong in 2004. Al Gore was a Manchurian deep state CCP asset in 2000. Etc, etc.
So of course we just now discover the ultra-left agenda of a California AG and her friend the Minnesota hog father two months before the general election. Shame McConnell didn't think to warn us sooner.
Is this guy delusional? After the way his party treated him in the convention, he still doubles down that the problem is the democrats?
Can't stop felating trump ya know.
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Fun fact, Congress can change the size of the Supreme Court at will for any reason.
They SHRUNK the court in 1866 from 9 to 7 because they just fucking hated Andrew Johnson THAT MUCH and they wanted to deny him a nomination.
After Johnson was out, they raised it back up to 9 in 1869, Granting 2, and it stayed that way ever since.
https://www.history.com/news/supreme-court-justices-number-constitution
"The Supreme Court had just ruled that paper money was unconstitutional, which would have 'wreaked havoc' with the U.S. Treasury, says Marcus. But Grant and Congress quickly confirmed two new justices who reversed the Court’s decision in the earlier case, saving the Republicans from having to undo the nation’s entire system of legal tender."
The Supreme Court had just ruled that paper money was unconstitutional
Jesus and I thought our court was making the most dumbass decisions. Wierdly gives me hope that the Harris administration can fix a whole bumcha bullshit though.
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what an assholish shitstain.
he's totally okay with handing fascists over as long as those fascists "promise" to give him a seat at the table when they take over the country
and you know what they say about people who sit at the table of fascists? (they're also fascists)
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So he doesn't want DC or PR statehood, giving federal representation to millions of otherwise disenfranchised US citizens because...he thinks they'll elect Democrats. Cool.
the other downside of DC statehood is that we’d have to change the slogan on our license plates, as they currently read “taxation without representation” for this very reason. just think of how silly all the old license plates would be if all of a sudden we actually did have representation.
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I see the man behind "making election day a national holiday is a power grab by the democrats"^[1] is rolling out some new hits. Never ceases to amaze that he can get away with saying this stuff out loud.
Well, of course. Consider your own reference. Mitch knows they are wildly unpopular, and making it easier for the common folk they've been fucking over for years to vote would be disastrous for them.
GOD if only they were RIGHT about how "dangerous" democrats were. IF ONLY THE DEMOCRATS WEREN'T COWARDS and would actually do this shit
By the way, on packing the Supreme Court ... you may know this already. It's unconstitutional.
The only things the constitution has to say on the matter of the supreme court are: there has to be one, the supreme court judges should be paid, and the president can appoint supreme court justices with the advice and consent of the senate. It is completely silent on matters of how many supreme court justices there should be, or how long their terms should be.
For all his many, many faults, Mitch McConnell is not a profoundly stupid man, so I'm sure he knows this. Since he very likely knows this already, he probably has a reason for lying to the public on the matter. If the president does appoint several more justices, it's not like the Republicans can sue: no lower court would take the case, and the supreme court would already be packed with people who will actually be faithful to the constitution. So legal threats are a complete non-starter. That just leaves non-legal threats, which is what I think this is. I think Glitch is previewing the Republican strategy in the case of Harris getting more justices hired, which is they'll stoke up the fear and hatred of their idiotic, mouth breathing supporters. It's a thinly-veiled threat of treason.
This from Mr "elections have consequences" himself.
Isn't this fucker dead yet? I have a bottle of scotch waiting for this asshole's demise. Same as Betsy DeVoss and her shitty brother; and the final Koch brother...
Nah, he'll never die. You can't kill a flesh-golem directly, you have to find its master and break the summon.
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McConnell called the Walz-Harris ticket “the far left of the Democratic Party.”
😆😆😆
This motherfucker is actually older than a Galapagos tortoise. Also, when did they unpause him? I thought his OS froze and he was shuffled off to hospice.
They're scared of Democrats stacking the courts? Is that what was said? He reminds me of an old timey western card game where a player is accusing everyone of cheating with cards tucked up his sleeves
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whatever their 'worst nightmares' are, are more than likely just what we need, and what most of us actually want.
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So his main objection is a loss of power
By the way, on packing the Supreme Court ... you may know this already. It's unconstitutional.
Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation.
You know, if the orange shithead is such a liability, maybe you should have condemned his actions leading up to J6, you melted bastard. Then maybe he wouldn't be the guy running the show.
During his speech, Spectrum reports that McConnell called the Walz-Harris ticket “the far left of the Democratic Party.”
“And by the way, that’s most Democrats today,” McConnell said, according to Spectrum.
I didn't realize the Dems were the far left party I'd been asking for. In this country, you can just say whatever and nobody checks. Apologies for multiple main-thread posts.
Everyone looks like a leftist when you're an avowed fascist.
I see the necromancy is still serving him well.
Die mad about it.
Oh, he's more worried about the nightmare for the GOP. Not for the country. Imagine that - he's more worried about the potential for the power of a political party to be diminished than he is about the end of the country.
Sounds Iike an amazing dream andaybe we can curb stomp the fascists ideas into the ground.
That Turtle Mitch dares comment on packing the supreme court is just inconceivable
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